Hi All,
I'm a fig collector from the southwest border of Hungary and I'd like to exchange fig cuttings. I wouldn't like to involve money in, so I prefer the mutual way of exchange. I can offer about 50 cultivars but some of them are small trees, so cuttings are very limited from about 30 of them.
The cultivars I can offer and are from our big trees, so are not very limited (I post pictures from them later):
-dark plate, big, not a late variety but the season is very long, sometimes until november
-brown plate (hardy, first crop is not plate)
-most common cultivar of our region, large brown pyriform fruit, defined palmate leaves
-yellow round giant, fruits sometimes about 200 grams
-yellow round small, probably of dalmatian (Croatia) origin, few or no breba crop, but main crop is among the best
-dark skinned, probably of Dalmatian origin, late ripening, second crop in end of October here
-black round from the Hungarian village of Kutfej, strawberry pulp
-drying on tree, green
-dark elongated, breba crop is more round and lighter in color
-another traditional Hungarian variety, main crop quite late, brown, very abundant, breba crop also
-Italian brown, bit similar to the Hungarian brown above.
-yellow hard-skinned from the Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg, hardy, strawberry pulp
Further to these cultivars I have the following ones, but they are 1 or 2 years-old trees, so cuttings are limited to 1-3 piece per tree (it means practically that I cannot send cuttings from these to more than 1-3 exchange partners and cuttings will be small):
-panachee
-parisienne
-ronde de Bordeaux
-portogallo
-sucrette
-salato
-col de dame (cuello de dama) black and white also
-napolitana (don't know dark or light, haven't fruited yet)
-big brownish-purple from Hungarian city of Pecs, hardy
-brogiotto nero
-albo
-dattero
-new bianco
-dauphine
-corso
-nero roco
-dottato
-sementino
-corvo siculo
-piazzetta (good for drying)
-luzzano (amber pulp)
-bianco gigante
-montesano
-bottaccio o.
-brown turkey (don't know which strain)
-raffaone (or possibly a misspelled faraone?)
-San Piero Na.
-verdino Giacomo (one of my personal favorite, green skin, deep red inside, very good for drying)
-montalcino rosa (pink skin)
-Madeleine des 2 saisons
-2 unknown Italian cultivars from Cesena
After all, I'm LOOKING FOR the following:
-Although all our fig cultivars are parthenocarpic and the fig wasp is not present here, I want to collect:
-caprifig trees (preferably good ones, for example persistent capri, capri Roeding) and wasps or larvae inside to settle down a fig wasp colony here. I'm also looking for female cultivars requiring pollination eg.:
-Smyrna, Calimyrna, Sari Lop Incir, Marabout, Zidi, Black Smyrna, Bursa Siyahi or any.
The reason for that is that I like challanges and they would be good rarities added to my collection. An alternative to the blastophagas could be artificial pollination, I like experiments.
-Any other good cultivars, for example:
-Genovese nero/black Genoa
-Black Madeira
-Black mission, better strains
-Celeste
-Negronne
-(Desert) King
-Sucre verte
-Vasilika syka
-Grise Saint Jean
-Hardy Chicago
-Marseillaise
-Noire de Caromb
-Noire de Barbentane
-Sultane
-Tena
-Nefiach
-Becane
-Verdal
-Bebera preta
-Verte
-Verdone
-Abicou
-Barnissotte/bourjassotte noire
-Beall
-Bellone
-Conadria
-Grosse grise
-Pied de Boeuf
-Longe d'Aout
-Any really hardy cultivar you know. Although our climate is very special in this tiny region (zone 8, winter absolute lows are generally -10 Celsius or warmer) but there are some harsh winters and I'd like to provide other collectors/friends from colder regions (zone 6-7) of my coutry with really hardy figs.
-A sangu, bursa siyahi, rigata rossa or any other good cultivar from the page ficuscarica.com
-Ull de perdiu, verdal from galgoni.com
-Any best US cultivar, you've talked about so many in this forum
-any other good, interesting French, Italian, Greek, etc. cultivar i don't have yet.
Some people have contacted us already from Gardenweb but I'd kindly accept any help or offer especially about the caprifig-wasp-smyrna fig staff. We also possess 14 asian persimmon (Diospyros kaki) cultivars, so we are interested in scion wood exchange of persimmon. We are interested in non-astringent japanese cultivars although we have some already.
